Das Verb im Chinesischen, Hmong, Vietnamesischen, Thai und Khmer

A comparative grammar of the verb across five languages of mainland Southeast Asia and southern China — Chinese, Hmong, Vietnamese, Thai and Khmer — examining serial verb constructions and grammaticalization. Bisang's point is areal: these languages are not related to one another, and yet they converge on similar solutions, which says something about contact and region rather than descent. Hmong is one of the five, so this is a specialist's book that treats Hmong as evidence rather than as its subject. In German, five hundred and forty-four pages, Gunter Narr Verlag, 1992. For linguists.